Happiness is nothing if it is not known, And very little if it is not envied.
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Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition.Samuel Johnson
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The folly of allowing ourselves to delay what we know cannot be finally escaped is one of the general weaknesses which, in spite of the instruction of moralists, and the remonstrance of reason, prevail to a greater or less degree in every mind
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He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.
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Words are the daughters of the earth, And things are the sons of heaven.
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About things on which the public thinks long it commonly thinks right.
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